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Hope In The Breadwinner By Deborah Ellis

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In The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis, a central theme is hope.
First, the image of Mrs. Weera’s encouragements represents the theme of hope because it represents new ideas and how they could still survive happily. For example, Mrs. Weera said “Don’t give up hope” in the story, she had brought the family back up to work hard to survive and earn money without their Dad. In addition, Mrs. Weera had been reminding them about the wonderful ideas, and she even came up with one, which is the “boy” disguise. Normally, Parvana would have been too scared to go do that, because her father is gone. Until hope arrived.
Second, the image of acting instead of stressing out at home represents the theme of hope because without hope, they couldn’t do it. Without

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